Re-Investing Authenticity Tourism, Place and Emotions

by Knudsen, Britta Timm; Waade, Anne Marit

• ISBN13: 9781845411275
• ISBN10: 1845411277
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-01-22
• Publisher: Channel View Publications

Summary

This book examines contemporary performances of authenticity in travel and tourism practices. It re-thinks and re-invests in the notion of authenticity as a surplus of experiential meaning and feeling that derives from what we do at / in places. Drawing on wide ranging perspectives and cases, it demonstrates how the feeling of authenticity within places is produced.

Author Biography

Britta Timm Knudsen is Associate Professor at the Scandinavian Department, Aarhus University, Denmark. Her research is within culture and media studies, event culture and experience economy, cultural heritage tourism and memory culture. She has recently published books and articles on realism, witnessing on TV, nostalgia and thanatourism (http://begivenhedskultur.dk). Anne Marit Waade is Associate Professor at the Institute of Information and Media Studies, Aarhus University, Denmark. Her research is within media aesthetics, visual culture, mediated tourism and market communications, and she has recently published articles on crime fiction tourism (www.krimiforsk.aau.dk) and travel series (www.tvunderholdning.au.dk) arid a book in Danish on media and tourism (Jensen Waade, 2009).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. vii
Contributors	p. ix
Preface	p. xv
Performative Authenticity in Tourism and Spatial Experience: Rethinking the Relations Between Travel, Place and Emotion	p. 1
Staging and Practicing Authenticity
Staging Places as Brands: Visiting Illusions, Images and Imaginations	p. 22
The City In-Between: Communication Geographies, Tourism and the Urban Unconscious	p. 38
The Summer We All Went to Keuruu': Intensity and the Topographication of Identity	p. 52
Branding and Materialising Authenticity
Authenticity and Place Branding: The Arts and Culture in Branding Berlin and Singapore	p. 66
On the Management of Authenticity: Culture in the Place Branding of Øresund	p. 80
A Ferris Wheel on a Parking Lot: Heritage, Tourism, and the Authenticity of Place in Solvang, California	p. 93
Re-writing and Re-mediating Authenticity
Travel and Testimony: The Rhetoric of Authenticity	p. 108
Cool Kullaberg: The History of a Mediated Tourist Site	p. 121
Crime Scenes as Augmented Reality: Models for Enhancing Places Emotionally by Means of Narratives, Fictions and Virtual Reality	p. 138
Murder Walks in Ystad	p. 154
Negotiating Authenticity at Rosslyn Chapel	p. 169
Re-empowering Authenticity
Making Pictures Talk: The Re-opening of a 'Dead City' through Vernacular Photography as a Catalyst for the Performance of Memories	p. 182
Globel: A Place of Integration or an 'Ethnic Oasis'?	p. 199
Online Tourism: Just like Being There?	p. 213
Embodying Spatial Mythologies
Journeys, Religion and Authenticity Re-visited	p. 228
Walking Towards Oneself: The Authentification of Place and Self	p. 241
Thrillscapes: Wilderness Mediated as Playground	p. 254
References	p. 266
Index	p. 288
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